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Interaction Design Official page We apply design thinking to real-world issues and develop novel interfaces, services and systems.

Established in 2001 at Zurich University of the Arts, IAD is an educational and research environment in which we explore and create interactive experiences. Focused on opportunities emerging in our networked society, IAD's members work on concrete projects for business clients and users, as well as pursue academic research relevant for interaction design community.

11/09/2026

A Bubble — Samantha Pan, Luca Somm

Imagining a shared future exploring the meaning of "Amphibious Humanity", through a suspended kinetic sculpture, spatial audio and volume renderings on a bubble that reacts to live buoy data. Recordings were collected in and around the Bay of Valsaline in P**a, Croatia during a field trip in April of 2026. Inspired by diving culture and marine folklore, the installation invites visitors to imagine multispecies coexistence in aquatic ecologies.

Part of Amphibious Humanity, our Campus Exhibition at Ars Electronica Festival 2026.

📍 University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8, West Building, HP8.02, Level 2
🗓 9–13 September 2026 · Ars Electronica Festival, Campus Exhibition
🕚 Daily 11:00–20:00, Sunday until 18:00

11/09/2026

Turbid Encounters — Carlo Hatke, Wangqing Li

Turbid Encounters translates the proximity and movement of surrounding bodies and objects into vibrations felt across the face. Drawing on the sensory conditions of underwater environments, the wearable mask suspends visual orientation and reimagines air as a dense relational medium, where proximity and co-presence unfold as patterns of motion perceived through haptic cues.

Part of Amphibious Humanity, our Campus Exhibition at Ars Electronica Festival 2026.

📍 University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8, West Building, HP8.02, Level 2
🗓 9–13 September 2026 · Ars Electronica Festival, Campus Exhibition
🕚 Daily 11:00–20:00, Sunday until 18:00

10/09/2026

Permeable — Gaëtan Merminod, Dominik Näf

Permeable merges the terrestrial and the aquatic into a unified environment, where defined boundaries dissolve into the immersive, volumetric nature of mist. Through experimentation with light and water, the work explores the threshold between two worlds, making the invisible tangible.

Part of Amphibious Humanity, our Campus Exhibition at Ars Electronica Festival 2026.

📍 University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8, West Building, HP8.02, Level 2
🗓 9–13 September 2026 · Ars Electronica Festival, Campus Exhibition
🕚 Daily 11:00–20:00, Sunday until 18:00

10/09/2026

Aquaoism — Dingyue Zhang, Hsin-Yi Lin

A speculative science-religion, set in a future shaped by climate crisis and boundless extraction. A living altar brings species together and treats non-human intelligence not as a resource to be used, but as a source of wisdom to be consulted.

If the ocean has been read for centuries as something to take from, Aquaoism asks what it would mean to approach it as something to learn from instead — and builds the ritual apparatus for doing so.

Part of Amphibious Humanity, our Campus Exhibition at Ars Electronica Festival 2026.

📍 University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8, West Building, HP8.02, Level 2
🗓 9–13 September 2026 · Ars Electronica Festival, Campus Exhibition
🕚 Daily 11:00–20:00, Sunday until 18:00

09/09/2026

Amphibious Humanity opened today at the Ars Electronica Festival!

The exhibition challenges our land-bound ways of thinking and stretches them with perspectives that come out of human encounters with underwater ecologies. Four interactive works and a video essay carry the experience of submerging into Valsaline Bay in Croatia back into an exhibition space through custom interfaces, live sensor data, sounds of the sea, and speculative ritual.

Turbid Encounters, Carlo Hatke, Wangqing Li
Permeable, Gaëtan Merminod, Dominik Näf
A Bubble, Samantha Pan, Luca Somm
Aquaoism, Dingyue Zhang, Hsin-Yi Lin
Attunement to the Ocean, video essay by the Interfacing the Ocean Group

Developed in the MA Interaction Design and the research project Interfacing the Ocean (2023–2028), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Curated by Roman Kirschner and Karmen Franinović
Coordination: Duy Bui

📍 University of Arts Linz, Hauptplatz 8, West Building, HP8.02, Level 2
🗓 9–13 September 2026 · Ars Electronica Festival, Campus Exhibition
🕚 Daily 11:00–20:00, Sunday until 18:00

Poster: Carlo Hatke .ha, Samantha Pan

ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

02/07/2026

Huge congratulations, Massimo!

Massimo's MA project Current's Wanderers has won the Förderpreis Design 2026. This is the third year in a row that the prize goes our MA Interaction Design programme – an extraordinary streak, and we are immensely proud of his achievement.

Current's Wanderers invites us into a world most of us never notice. Using water as a physical and conceptual bridge, the installation lets visitors observe, listen to, touch and move alongside real-time plankton – drawn from a microscopic portion of Lake Greifensee – through the very currents that carry them.

The project stands out for developing genuinely novel more-than-human design methods, showing both the plankton and the scientists who study them in a new light. It builds empathy towards living beings most of us overlook, and translates into design the care scientists hold for these tiny communities – a reminder that science offers more than data and facts alone.

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Current’s Wanderers: A Real-Time Bridge to Plankton Life
Massimo Bordogna
Mentors: Prof. Dr. Karmen Franinović , Anthea Oestreicher , Luke Franzke
Collaboration Partners: Aquascope – Eawag, Marta Reyes & Stefanie Eyring

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01/07/2026

Finally Masters!

We are immensely proud to accompany our first class in our new MA programme through four semesters to their graduation.

From plankton worlds and river beings to consciousness and contaminated soil, into the quiet politics of attention and the things our labels never tell us – it's been an privilege to think alongside you all.

Congratulations to our MA Interaction Design graduates of 2026: Kirill Kohl & Olivia Menezes & Yaroslava Shylyk, Leon Junge, Massimo Bordogna, Sacha Schwarz, Silvana De Paola, Vera Bardin
With Head of MA Prof. Dr. Karmen Franinović and Bettina Hannwacker on stage.

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30/06/2026

Graduated! 🪩

Six semesters, countless prototypes, late nights and breakthroughs. Witnessing this cohort of the BA Major Interaction Design grow into curious, critical and courageous designers has been a privilege.
Your future starts now and you are more than ready for whatever comes next.

Proud to celebrate our BA graduates of 2026: Anna Senko, Elena Fabrikant & Meagan Crowe de Janon, Iris Prelorentzou, Joel Staub, Jonathan Gartenmann, Laura Renner, Lea Helbok & Lorena Cirincione, Leroy Jallow & Thinle Sh*tsetsang, Nadja Häfliger, Nico Frey & Noel Kampus, Pablo Blumer & Tommaso Poggi.

See you soon!

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26/06/2026

«Deadline» explores how administrative communication after a death can be redesigned through service design. The project proposes a citizen-orientated support service that reduces fragmentation, clarifies responsibilities and supports bereaved people during complex administrative processes.

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Deadline
Supporting People Through Administrative Processes After a Death
Lola Renner
BA 2026

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IAD Diploma Exhibition 2026
Daily 12 – 20 until 26 June
Galerie 1&2, 4.K14

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26/06/2026

Usability issues in industrial control interfaces increase error risk for plant operators. «Flowra» applies AI to help automation engineers identify and address these issues before deployment. It analyses Human-Machine Interface projects against industry standards and generates recommendations for readable, consistent and error-resistant interfaces.

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Flowra
Human-Machine Interfaces Operators Can Trust
Lea Helbok & Lorena Cirincione c, .el.hel
BA 2026

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IAD Diploma Exhibition 2026
Daily 12 – 20 until 26 June
Galerie 1&2, 4.K14

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http://iad.zhdk.ch/

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